How Many Times You Did Lost Your Work

[Visual Man]

Hi

I maked that poll for informing if users having such problems the poll here is for how many times you did lost you work on a computer for unresponding

please vote

[Hack]

Moved to General Developer

I don't see a poll.

Are you talking about having your computer lock for no particular reason and the only way of getting it back was a reboot which prevented you from being able to save your work? If so, I have had that happen, but not very often.

Is this happening to you a lot?

[Visual Man]

Be patient

[Hack]

What is the answer to my question?

(Incidentially, computers are machines....they are incapable of emotion)

[Paul M]

Where is the "never" option. With all my work i take precautions back it up on my USB and i save regularly every 20 minutes. And i have never had a major computer crash, except one time where a pin in my USB port was bent and the computer wouldn't startup until i finally realized >.<

[RhinoBull]

I don't believe no one had never lost their work regardless of what it is due to some anomalies like lost of power, internal processes locking machine (especially back in the PI/PII and Win95/WinNT4 days...
You cannot possibly work and keep the Save button down - it's just that the more frequently you do it the better I guess.

[Hack]

I agree. Over the years, I've lost a bunch of stuff because I worked and worked and worked, and didn't save, then for one odd reason or another, the PC got bollixed up.

I would still like to know the purpose of this question. Visual Man: Are you having issues with your PC?

[Paul M]

When i say never lost, i have had the computer crash well completing some work on Word or what have you. But i save every 20 minutes so i will only lose so much work. I will never lose the whole file and have to start from scratch. And i am still unsure what this topic is about?

[szlamany]

Both QUERY ANALYZER and the VB IDE can lock up if you are running some kind of loop or encounter an odd bug in your code.

I've lost both .SQL files and VB changes due to this.

I hate it - there should be an option to "save before every run" - I've found that option in other applications - like video editing software and other graphical tools.

I voted for 5-10 - but I'm sure it's been more than 10 in the past few decades!

[GaryMazzone]

Steve isn't there an option in VB to save before run (in both VB6 and .Net). The QUERY ANALYZER I aggree with I have lost stuff there.

[szlamany]

Steve isn't there an option in VB to save before run (in both VB6 and .Net).

I never looked - thanks - I'll check that out.

Maybe I can stop obsessively trying to remember to click save before run-with-full compile!

[GaryMazzone]

I think these are the options:

.Net and VB6

[Shaggy Hiker]

I lost a few months of work when somebody broke into my house and stole my computer. That sucked.

[techgnome]

I once deleted the entire Accounts Receivables table for a client once.... the only saving grace was that the DB had just gotten backed up that morning. Personally I've lost some, but not a lot, and usually it's because I'm not paying attention to the battery monitor and I lose power. But VS.NET has an autosave, so the most I've lost is jsut a copuple of minutes..... now in SQL.... I've lost entire queries....

It's jsut a part of the nature of things.

-tg

[matrik02]

When i say never lost, i have had the computer crash well completing some work on Word or what have you. But i save every 20 minutes so i will only lose so much work. I will never lose the whole file and have to start from scratch. And i am still unsure what this topic is about?

I suggest that you should save your works every 5 minutes, by this way, you can minimize a possibility lose your works

[matrik02]

I lost a few months of work when somebody broke into my house and stole my computer. That sucked.

Did you lodge a police report?

[Al42]

I've only had one major loss - and that was on a Mostek OS system (an assembler decided to write an output file to the system and directory tracks, and the only working backup floppies were on another continent), which prompted me to write an undelete program.

I've lost work due to bad software, operator error, diskettes going bad ... but I've never lost a significant amount of work from a computer locking up.

[matrik02]

I never looked - thanks - I'll check that out.

Maybe I can stop obsessively trying to remember to click save before run-with-full compile!

I never save the program while make a compiling and modification untill I fully test the code I was modify. Because, If I save it and do compiling, once the error found I not remember the line I have made some changing

[matrik02]

I've lost work due to bad software, operator error, diskettes going bad.

Are you still using diskettes or floppy disk? I always save the back up file on my USB PEN drive.

[RhinoBull]

I personally have a habit of frequently hitting those CTRL+S keys regardless what I do so the chances [for me] to lose some work are slim.
But I did lose some in the past - maybe that's how these sort of habits are developed?

[CVMichael]

I once (a few years ago) made a Ray Tracing program in C++, after 6 months of work, I had a bad cluster on the hard-drive in the partition information.... I lost the whole hard-drive... I also had many smaller programs on it...

I bought a USB stick a few months ago, (4 GB), and I put all my programming on it, I deleted the stuff on my hard-drive becuase I did not want to have too many copies and get confuzed on what's the newest version. After a few days, the USB stick stopped working, I could not access the USB drive at all, it was as if I did not even pugged it in...
I had some old backups, and I also ran an un-delete program to recover from my hard-drive. I recovered most of the stuff, but it did not recover the directories, and it placed all the files in one directory.... it's such a big mess that I rarelly try to find old code anymore...

Now I'm doing backups regularly, and I also do backups on multiple hard-drives in case 1 of them fails...

I even made a backup program, but it's not very good (I have to schedule it for backup). Now I want to make a continuous backup program as a windows service, but I never have the time for it.

[techgnome]

Does having a stack of punch cards pushed off your desk count? What about if it was a 5 inch stack.... with no clips.... or staples..... or a rubber band.... and not in a box?

man suk$ to be him then.....

-tg

[szlamany]

I never save the program while make a compiling and modification untill I fully test the code I was modify. Because, If I save it and do compiling, once the error found I not remember the line I have made some changing

That's what visual source safe and a photographic memory are all about

[szlamany]

...Now I'm doing backups regularly, and I also do backups on multiple hard-drives in case 1 of them fails...

My laptop backups up every night to a maxtor terabyte hard drive sitting on my desk - and I make regular DVD images and take them off site (to my kitchen at home)...

I also push all code to source-safe on a server here at the office nightly.

That server used to be backed up to tape but since I put SBS 2003 on it the drivers for the 200GB tape drive won't work

Can't have enough backups!

[matrik02]

I suggest you to rename the folder base on time,date. or you can buy DVD that have more storage. You can delate files on your DVD.

[szlamany]

... or you can buy DVD that have more storage.

More storage then a terabyte harddrive?

[Al42]

Are you still using diskettes or floppy disk?

Still? No. (Although, just yesterday, I had to write a program to read files from floppies and save the data to a database. Banks are notoriously behind the times.) But I've been programming since audio cassettes were the modern storage medium (paper tape and Hollerith cards were the older media).

[Visual Man]

I'm soory for no responding till today i'm a busy man i have so much things in my life to do else programing but i love it and i won't learn every thing about about the post once i had a small program that i've finished and then mouse pointer stopped responding hdd also stops so i had to make a restart and i've lost that's happens a lot to me some times my computer just crash i hate that (and especialy with WinMe and my computer is broken (He restarts him self immediatly after windows starts but my antivirus program keeps make cpu busy scanning files so he don't now if anyone want to know more i'll make my story a post later...) so i am polling if someone lose him work due to a crash or lockup or anything computer gets in.

[Visual Man]

I'm soory for no responding till today i'm a busy man i have so much things in my life to do else programing but i love it and i won't learn every thing about about the post once i had a small program that i've finished and then mouse pointer stopped responding hdd also stops so i had to make a restart and i've lost that's happens a lot to me some times my computer just crash i hate that (and especialy with WinMe and my computer is broken (He restarts him self immediatly after windows starts but my antivirus program keeps make cpu busy scanning files so he don't now if anyone want to know more i'll make my story a post later...) so i am polling if someone lose him work due to a crash or lockup or anything computer gets in.

[mendhak]

I've lost my work once. It was due to an explosion in the neighborhood which caused the powerlines to short thus rendering the computer 'off'. Also, that explosion killed hundreds of people.

[Kasracer]

Only lost my work once. That was back when I was 15 and I formatted both my computer and my backup Zip disk because I completely forgot.

Thankfully it was only a couple of stupid Flash movies I lost (though I thought one was neat =/)

Since then, I have never lost work. I save very regularlly and I have a drive I save everything to which is saved onto a server and backed up nightly onto two additional hard drives. At any given time, I usually have 4-5 backups of my work and the backups are never older than one day. Not to mention I have a USP backup so if power goes out, I have plenty of time to save my work before my desktop would lose power (or, if I'm on my laptop, I can use the network for at least 6+ more hours so I am uninterrupted ).

To anyone who has lost work more than once.... well, shame on you. It's preventable.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I now develop code off of a NAS using a RAID level 5 array located in a hidden room of my house. Half the fun was building the secret door. It's a bit bizarre, I realize, but once you realize you have a hidden closet in your house, what ELSE could you use it for?